@just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world • 2 months agoOur allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.www.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1487arrow-down110cross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
arrow-up1477arrow-down1external-linkOur allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.www.rawstory.com@just_another_person@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world • 2 months agomessage-square94fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@midwest.social
minus-square@jagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 months agoThe strong economy is a result of theft. The US has always been a piece of shit.
minus-square@ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 months agoI’m not disagreeing but that’s a bold claim about the US economy. Please share your sources, I’d like a read.
minus-square@NuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoLenin’s “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” explains this precisely.
minus-square@ubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 months agoMust be the manual Lenin and Stalin followed… lest anyone forget that the USSR quickly, like within a year of the revolution, decided to be imperialist too.
minus-square@T00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink7•2 months agoFounded on slavery, and then you could argue that capitalism is inherently about theft. As someone else pointed out, banana republics.
minus-square@jagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoI recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States
minus-square@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink1•2 months agotheft and technology, i would say.
minus-square@jagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoI guess, if you call smallpox and pistols and slavery technology
The strong economy is a result of theft. The US has always been a piece of shit.
I’m not disagreeing but that’s a bold claim about the US economy. Please share your sources, I’d like a read.
Just Google “banana republics”
Lenin’s “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” explains this precisely.
Must be the manual Lenin and Stalin followed… lest anyone forget that the USSR quickly, like within a year of the revolution, decided to be imperialist too.
Founded on slavery, and then you could argue that capitalism is inherently about theft. As someone else pointed out, banana republics.
Parenti.
I recommend reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States
theft and technology, i would say.
I guess, if you call smallpox and pistols and slavery technology